Asp.net mvc - How to define a child action to ignore the layout

Question

I am using @Html.Action() to render a child action in my view.

The _ViewStart.cshtml file indicates that all views should use a specific layout, for example:

 @{ Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; } 

The problem is that the layout also applies to my child action, so the last page ends with two headers and two footers. How to prevent this?

Answer 1

2 possibilities:

• return PartialView() from the corresponding controller action instead of return View()

• Delete the layout in the view itself

   @{ Layout = null; } 

Answer 2

It seems you want to use ChildActionOnly and don't want to pass the model from the view, then you cannot use PartialView.

If so, you need to manually delete the layout

 @{ Layout = ""; }